HERRINGBONES Synonyms

• (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes

• V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service

• an inverted V-shaped charge

• having a sharply uneven surface or outline

• having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

• notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex

• shaped in the form of the letter V

• an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions

• in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path

• having short sharp turns or angles

• travel along a zigzag path

• having a wavy margin and rippled surface

• stir up (water) so as to form ripples

• occur in soft rounded shapes

• move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion

• increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves

• a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery